Cruz to teabaggers: "If you wamt to live in a fantasy world where you'rw winning, then so will I." http://t.co/EiS1k0JiHI
— billmon (@billmon1) October 11, 2013
Either Cruz also completely delusional, or he believes living the fantasy now will set him up 2 lead the "stabbed in the back" search later.
— billmon (@billmon1) October 11, 2013
My favorite Speaker-to-Republicans, Dave Weigel, is doing his usual fine work at this weekend’s Values Voter Summit:
“Don’t be the weird one!” said Gil Mertz, the avuncular regional director of the Family Research Council. “There’s always a weird one who wants to hold an impromptu press conference.”
Mertz, the emcee of the annual Values Voter Summit of social conservatives in D.C., was at that moment speaking behind barricades. Organizers had placed metal barricades in front of the stage, mimicking the fences placed by park rangers in front of the many national monuments closed during the government shutdown. In this room, there is no WSJ/NBC poll suggesting that the GOP is blamed for a shutdown. Putting up barricades to remind people that it’s Obama’s fault is not even weird.
“He has used those barricades to defend memorials from our veterans,” said FRC president Tony Perkins. “He has used barricades to try to keep our voices down in America.”
Utah Sen. Mike Lee, the Republican who might have done the most to commit the GOP to a “defund Obamacare” strategy, opened up the political speechmaking party of the day by agreeing with Perkins.
“The best argument for stopping Obamacare is the action of this president over the past 10 days,” said Lee, the day’s first political speaker. “The president is using the vast power of the American government to hurt the American people. Why? To win a political argument.”…
Much, much more — including Louie Gohmert calling John McCain “an al Qaeda supporter” — at the link. For home entertainment use only…
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